jonathan cook is obviously a front for putin. i had a bizarre taxi journey into manhattan yesterday. the driver was a ukrainian jew who turned out to be a neocon poet; he hated russia and putin, thought america was a great country because he could rent an apartment and owned a car, he thought the iraq war was ‘great fun’ and he ended our conversation by praising adolf hitler. ‘i know he didn’t like jews’, he said, ‘but he was a great organiser’. obama is moving to WW3 to fight for such people….

jonathan cook is obviously a front for putin. i had a bizarre taxi journey into manhattan yesterday. the driver was a ukrainian jew who turned out to be a neocon poet; he hated russia and putin, thought america was a great country because he could rent an apartment and owned a car, he thought the iraq war was ‘great fun’ and he ended our conversation by praising adolf hitler. ‘i know he didn’t like jews’, he said, ‘but he was a great organiser’. obama is moving to WW3 to fight for such people….

The use of the term “Russians” to describe the various peoples of the USSR is… misleading, shall we say? The other problem ignored is the number of Soviet casualties killed by the USSR in prison camps or fighting for the Germans or against the USSR.

in which case let’s not talk about the british but english casualties vs scots, or welsh or irish. or how about african americans vs wasps vs italian-americans, etc; sardinians vs french french vs algerians and so on………..?

How many instances were there of- say- English people deporting and killing Scots in thousands in WWII and the Scots going over to the enemy in response?
There were several million political prisoners in Soviet camps in 1941 and many of them died there in the war. In 1940 the USSR invaded the Baltic states and deported a large proportion of the population, with many of them dying. Other nations were deported. The Chechens lost at least a quarter of their number, for example. Ukrainians, Belorussians and others went over to the Germans en masse. It wasn’t Nazism or anti-Semitism that inspired most of them but hatred of their rulers. After the war returned Soviet POWs who had survived Hitler’s camps were sent to Soviet camps where they died like others. To speak in terms of “the Russians” and to give the impression that the Soviet casualties were of a kind with the casualties of the UK or the USA is to simplify it into dishonesty.

in earlier periods of scots history, no shortage of same. but then the english never remember their sins, do they? you are happy to subdivide the russians into ethnic groups but won’t recognise similar divisions in your own side, just a coincidence us and brit neocons on the rampage over ukraine right now? don’t think so. you just don’t want to recognise massive scale of russion losses against nazis……because it undermines the dishonest cartoon of russia being peddled by americans & brits re ukraine…..